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Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 11:12:48 +0200
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On 05/24/2011 09:54 PM, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Florist is a Free Software implementation of POSIX.5.  The only nit you
> might pick is that POSIX.5 is not included by reference in the Ada
> Reference Manual.  Personally I don't really care.  If I need to and if
> my target system is POSIX compliant (which it always is in practice), I
> can write a standard Ada program using the standard sockets interface
> which is part of the standard POSIX.5.
>
> Oh, and I think I did mention GNAT.Sockets.  So what are people
> complaining about, again?



The Florist package from libre.adacore.com appears to have dumped POSIX
sockets. At least I can't find them anywhere.

Is there another Florist package available out there in the wild?

Or am I just missing something completely obvious?

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Thomas Løcke

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